Created by Yasushi Iwamoto, November 5, 1996
 

Productivity

Overview

Jorgenson, Dale W.(1988), "Productivity and Postwar U.S. Economic Growth" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall, 23-41.

Jorgenson, Dale W., Frank M. Gollop, and Barbara M. Fraumeni (1987), Productivity and U.S. Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press).

Jorgenson, Dale W (1990), "Productivity and Economic Growth," in Ernst R. Berndt and Jack E. Triplett eds., Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 54 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 19-118.

Griliches, Zvi (1988), "Productivity Puzzles and R&D: Another Nonexplanation," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall, 9-21.

1. Production Function

Arrow, Kenneth J., Hollis B. Chenery, Bagicha S. Minhas, and Robert M. Solow (1961), "Capital-Labor Substitution and Economic Efficiency," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 63, No 3, August, 225-247.

Christensen, Laurits R., Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrense J. Lau (1973), "Transcendental Logarithmic Production Frontiers," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 55, No, 1, February, 28-45.

Diewert, W. Erwin (1976), "Exact and Superlative Index Numbers," Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 4, No. 2, May, 115-146.

2. Solow Residual

Solow, Robert M. (1957), "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 39, No. 3, August, 312-320.

3. Labor Input

3.1 Aggregate

Dension, Edward F. (1961), "Measurement of Labor Input: Some Questions of Definition and the Adequacy of Data," Output, Input, and Productivity Measurement, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 25 (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 347-372.

Dension, Edward F. (1962), Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us (New York: Committee for Economic Development).

3.2 Sectoral

Gollop, Frank M., and Dale W. Jorgenson (1983), "Sectoral Measures of Labor Cost for the United States 1948-1978," in Jack E. Triplett ed., The Measurement of Labor Cost NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 44 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 185-235, 503-520.

Gollop, Frank M., and Dale W. Jorgenson (1980), "U.S. Productivity Growth by Industry 1947-1973," in John W. Kendrick and Beatrice Vaccara eds., New Developments in Productivity Measurement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 17-136.

4. Capital Input

Hulten, Charles R. (1990), "The Measurement of Capital," in Ernst R. Berndt and Jack E. Triplett eds., Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 54, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 119-152.

4.1 Aggregate

Jorgenson, Dale W. (1963), "Capital Theory and Investment Behavior," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 53, No. 2, May, 247-259.

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Zvi Griliches (1967), "The Explanation of Productivity Change," Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 99, July, 249-283.

4.2 Tax Policy and Aggregate

Hall, Robert E., and Dale W. Jorgenson (1967), "Tax Policy and Investment Behavior," American Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, July, 391-414.

Christensen, Laurits R., and Dale W. Jorgenson (1969), "The Measurement of U.S. Real Capital Input 1929-1967," Review of Income and Wealth, Ser. 15, No. 4, December, 293-320.

4.3 Tax Policy and Sectoral

Fraumeni, Barbara M., and Dale W. Jorgenson (1980), "The Role of Capital in U.S Economic Growth 1948-1976," in George von Furstenberg, ed., Capital Efficiency and Growth (Cambridge: Ballinger), 9-25.

4.4 Depreciation Rates

Hulten, Chales R., and Frank C. Wykoff (1981), "The Estimation of Economic Depreciation Using Vintage Asset Prices: An Application of the Box-Cox Power Transformation," Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 15, No. 3, April, 367-396.

Hulten, Chales R., and Frank C. Wykoff (1981), "The Measurement of Economic Depreciation," in Charles R. Hulten eds., Depreciation, Inflation, and the Taxation of Income from Capital (Washington, D.C: Urban Institute Press), 81-125.

4.5 Government Capital

Boskin, Micheal J., Marc S. Robinson, and John M. Roberts (1989), "New Estimates of Federal Government Tangible Capital and Net Investment," in Dale W. Jorgenson and Ralph Landau eds., Technology and Capital Formation (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), 451-283.

5. International Comparisons

Diewert, W. Erwin (1996), "Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons," NBER Working Paper No. 5559, May.

5.1 Japanese Case

Ezaki, Mitsuo, and Dale W. Jorgenson (1973), "Measurement of Macroeconomic Performance in Japan, 1951-1968," in Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience Since the Meiji Era, Vol. 1 (Tokyo: Japan Economic Research Center).

Nishimizu, Mieko, and Charles R. Hulten (1978), "The Sources of Japanese Economic Growth: 1955-1971," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 60, No. 3, August, 351-361.

5.2 US-Japan Comparison

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Mieko Nishimizu (1978), "U.S. and Japanese Economic Growth, 1952-1974: An International Comparison," Economic Journal, Vol. 88, No. 352, December, 707-726.

Jorgenson, Dale W., Masahiro Kuroda, and Mieko Nishimizu (1987), "Japan-U.S. Industry Level Productivity Comparisons, 1960-1979," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 1, No. 1, March, 1-30.

Jorgenson, Dale W (1988), "Productivity and Economic Growth in Japan and the U.S.," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 78, No. 2, May, 217-222.

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Masahiro Kuroda (1992), "Productivity and International Competitiveness in Japan and the United States, 1960-1985," Economic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, December, 313-325.

6. Human Capital

Kendrick, John W. (1976), The Formation and Stocks of Total Capital (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research).

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Barbara M. Fraumeni (1989), "The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948-84," in Robert E. Lipsey and Helen S. Tice eds., The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 52 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 227-282.

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Barbara M. Fraumeni (1992), "The Output of the Education Sector," in Zvi Griliches ed., Output Measurement in the Services Sector, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth Vol. 55 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).

Jorgenson, Dale W., and Barbara M. Fraumeni (1992) "Investment in Education and U.S. Economic Growth," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 94, Supplement, 51-70.